Several sunflowers grow in a field

Why do plants wiggle? New study provides answers

Aug. 15, 2024

Decades after his voyage on the HMS Beagle, Charles Darwin became fascinated by why plants move as they grow鈥攕pinning and twisting into corkscrews. Now, more than 150 years later, a new study may have solved the riddle.

A group of adelie penguins on iceberg

Southern Ocean鈥檚 hidden treasures: Scientists identify crucial wildlife conservation sites

Aug. 14, 2024

Establishing Key Biodiversity Areas in the Southern Ocean will be vital for safeguarding the ecosystem from the impact of human activities, 精品SM在线影片 researchers say.

Children, seen from behind, sit at desks and raise their hands in a classroom

Are school boards becoming politicized? Expert weighs in

Aug. 13, 2024

This month, children across the U.S. are heading back to class. Their educations will be shaped by the decisions of nearly 13,000 school boards. Anna Deese, a former school board member from Montana, breaks down some of the biggest misconceptions.

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Free bus fare didn鈥檛 yield better air

Aug. 13, 2024

New research by 精品SM在线影片 doctoral student Grant Webster finds that the free-fare public transit initiative didn鈥檛 reduce ground-level ozone but may have other benefits.

精品SM在线影片 doctoral candidate Idowu Odeyemi

Scholar challenges rigid boundaries in African philosophical thought

Aug. 13, 2024

精品SM在线影片 doctoral candidate Idowu Odeyemi argues that African philosophy should not be limited to a single definition.

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Bipartisan data-privacy law could backfire on small businesses

Aug. 13, 2024

Privacy comes at a price. The American Privacy Rights Act could undermine small entrepreneurs who rely on targeted digital advertising. Read from CU expert John Lynch and colleague Jean-Pierre Dub茅 on The Conversation.

Geologists Lizzy Trower and Carl Simpson

Why did a frozen Earth coincide with an evolutionary spurt?

Aug. 12, 2024

Geologists Lizzy Trower and Carl Simpson have won $1 million in support from the W.M. Keck Foundation to try to solve an evolutionary puzzle and extend Earth鈥檚 temperature record by 2 billion years.

White House Deputy Special Assistant Alvin Snyder with President Richard Nixon before his resignation speech in 1974

Remembering Nixon鈥檚 resignation, 5 decades later

Aug. 12, 2024

Political science professor Kenneth Bickers reflects on what made the ex-president鈥檚 decision to step down following the Watergate scandal a watershed moment in American history and how it has influenced politics today.

Man examines a piece of paper in front of a booth labeled with the American flag and the word "vote"

Those with the biggest biases choose first, according to new math study

Aug. 12, 2024

In a new study, researchers created a sort of simulated voting booth鈥攁 space where people, or mathematical 鈥渁gents,鈥 with various biases could deliberate over decisions. The results may help reveal the mathematics of how the human brain acts when it needs to make a choice.

Earth sunrise, aurora and cities in northern Europe

LASP team advances in NASA mission concept competition

Aug. 8, 2024

A team at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics has received a $2 million award to develop a concept study for a NASA mission that will investigate how Earth鈥檚 lower atmosphere influences the upper atmosphere.

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